Given name
Hortensia
“woman of the garden”
Hortensia is used as a given name. One Latin interpretation is “woman of the garden.”
Original LatinHortensius
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “woman of the garden.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
How it developed
In Spanish usage, Hortensia is a feminine form of Hortensius.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1896. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hortensia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,794
- 0 boys · 1,794 girls
- Most popular year
- 1928
- 66 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1995. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 66 in 1928. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,295 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hortensia’s family of names
In Danish usage, Hortensia has a diminutive in TENNA. In Spanish usage, Hortensia is a feminine form of Hortensius. Hortensia has a related form in Hortencia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Hortenciavariant
- Tennadiminutive · Danish
- Hortensevariant
- Hortendanevariant
- Hortendannavariant
- Hortendanavariant
- Hortinziavariant
- Hortenxiavariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hortensia
- Hortensia von MoosSwiss writer1659–1715
- Hortensia Papadat-BengescuRomanian writer (1876–1955)
- Hortensia HerreroSpanish businesswoman and philanthropistborn 1950
- Hortensia FussyAustrian sculptor (born 1954)
- Hortensia Blanch PitaMexican writer1914–2004
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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